<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp742bdfbbyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Folks, </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">We had a fun, enjoyable meeting at Patterson's Pub Thursday, with several members saying we should do this more often. Gary Champlin, our Area Governor and his lovely wife Eve joined us, which gave us a chance to meet and get reaquainted with both of them. The food was good, the service impressive and the venue worked really well. We met a visiting Rotarian and his wife who were having lunch there and who reached out to us with some good words about Rotary.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Toby handed out "Rotarian of the Year Awards" to Margaret, Matt O'Halloran and Jeff, <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Gary won the raffle, and received a bottle of wine, but sadly (hah!!) did not draw the joker.</span></span><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Harold spoke of the fun he had had in Rotary and how much it meant to him. Matt Davis spoke about the importance of reaching out to young people and providing them a means to find a role for themselves. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">We reminded ourselves that we will meet tonight in the Park for tree lighting and Christmas caroling, and reminded all members to deliver their warm weather clothing to be donated to the Street Medicine program. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">There as a general view that we should have more meetings like this one. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">The minutes of the last Board meeting are attached. Apologies for taking so long with them, it was a busy time in the Stubbs household.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Happy holidays, and see you all tonight.</div><div><br></div><div class="ydp742bdfbbsignature">Jeff Stubbs<br>P.O. Box 1360 Mendocino, CA 95460<br>Home phone 707-937-6026<br>I phone 707-536-6190<br>Skype phone 707-397-5620<br>Skype name jeffrystubbs<br></div></div></body></html>